Folks, just for the record  here is a story of my personal Dometic fridge
you will all find  enlightening.  Ever since coming back from Mexico where my
Dometic  performed flawlessly, showing an average of -5C every morning no
matter where,  it started not cooling properly on propane.  A few weeks ago I
plugged it  on 110 and found that it would go to -7C easily so I presumed
there to be a  blockage in the propane fire box.  Out comes the fridge and I
service it  and find not much to be concerned about.  It seems to run well
on the bench  using my barbecue tank and it regulator.  Back in the van and
hooked to the  van's tank and regulator, same problem as before.  It would go
down to +5C,  that's it.  So, I get my barbecue tank and regulator and hook
it up  directly to the line from the van's tank regulator.  Within one hour
it's  cooled down to -5C.  So the regulator is bad, right ?  Installed a
new  regulator yesterday and it's now cooling as it had previously.  Down to
-9C  easily overnight.  The weird thing of it is the regulator that I removed
 was installed October 07, 2005 a Marshall Brass 290 the same as the one I
just  installed.  So, a question remains as to why the regulator only lasted
a  few years.  Is this normal ?  Just a crappy regulator built  in ?
Mexican propane damage ?  What ?

Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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